Frank N. "Mickey" Schubert is chief of joint operational history
in the Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He is a graduate of Howard University (BA, 1965), the University of Wyoming
(MA, 1970), and the University of Toledo (PhD, 1977), and a Vietnam veteran.
Dr. Schubertís twenty-two years as a Department of Defense historian include
thirteen with the Army Corps of Engineers (1977-1989). During that time
he wrote extensively on exploration of the American west and various aspects
military construction.

He is the author of Building Air Bases in the Negev: the US Army
Corps of Engineers in Israel, 1979-1982 (1992), Buffalo Soldiers,
Braves, and the Brass: the Story of Fort Robinson, Nebraska (1993),
and On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans
in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 (1995). He is also general editor, along
with Theresa L. Kraus, of The Whirlwind War: the United States Army
in Operations. His latest work is Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers
and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 (1997).